Bexx Djentuh-Davis is a Māori and Ghanaian filmmaker, producer, event curator and queer youth worker.

Gabriela Gonzalez is a Chilean visual artist, sound producer, photographer and broadcaster.

We interviewed Bexx and Gabriela at the Arts Centre Melbourne, as part of Art Souk.

We chat about:

• Bexx on her Nana’s boxes of letters and photos
• Gabriela talks bad break up one liners
• Collaborating across the world
• The necessity of creating art while the world is burning
• Art as a personal archive
• Gabriela’s pivot to pottery to move away from misinformation on screens
• Bexx stepping into her creative main character energy
• The tightrope of creating personal art - Am I ganna get smacked?
• Pointless meetings
• The We Eatin Good Bitch film

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guests: Bexx Djentuh-Davis and Gabriela Gonzalez

Music by: the Green Twins

Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga

Special thanks: Multicultural Arts Victoria, Arts Centre Melbourne, Creative Victoria, Creative Australia, City of Melbourne and MzRizk for curating this incredible event.

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to the Elders of these lands past and present and also acknowledge the neighbouring Kulin Nation groups, the Boonwurrung and Bunurong people. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

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Scotty So is a Melbourne/Narrm-based artist who works across media, including ceramic, painting, photography, sculptures videos, and drag performance.

Joel Bray is Wiradjuri artist, dancer, choreographer, actor and writer. We interviewed Scotty and Joel at MPavilion, as part of their season 11 Homeground series.

We chat about:

• Kimono collections
• Playing with perspective
• Double entendre
• Incorporating sex into art
• Scarlett So Hung Son popping up on the news
• How humour shows up in their practice
• Lip synching to cello
• Joel’s guide to audience participation
• Scotty is a time traveller
• Joel’s two degrees of separation from Beyonce
• Creating site specific work
• Collaborating with Elders
• Foyer chats and openings: yay or nay?

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guests: Scotty So and Joel Bray

Music by: the Green Twins

Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga

Special thanks: MPavilion

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.

You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

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Welcome to the final episode of season 2 of Being Biracial! Today we are chatting to each other about:

• Our reflections on this season

• How age impacts our conversations about being mixed-race

• Processing identity through the creation of art

• Maria’s experience at the Matariki wānanga

• Threads at the Immigration Museum

• The difficulty of creating work about deeply personal things

• Family secrets

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Music by: the Green Twins

Edited by: Kate Robinson

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.

You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.